In the absence of unsettled playmaker Philippe Coutinho, Liverpool turned to an 18-year-old right back making his European debut for some set-piece success in its Champions League playoff win against Hoffenheim on Tuesday.“Our little hero,” Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said of Alexander-Arnold, who has been at the English club since the age of 6, has played for England’s youth teams and is making his full breakthrough in the first team this season.Liverpool — a five-time European champion— is on course to reach the group stage after Havard Nordtveit inadvertently deflected substitute James Milner’s cross into his own net to make it 2-0 in the 74th minute.In other games Tuesday, CSKA Moscow beat Young Boys of Switzerland 1-0 on an own goal in added time, Azerbaijani club Qarabag FK moved closer to its first appearance in the group stage by beating FC Copenhagen 1-0, former Champions League quarterfinalist APOEL beat Slavia Prague 2-0, and Sporting Lisbon played Steaua Bucharest to a scoreless tie.The Rapids are 6-12-4 this season, their fourth under Mastroeni, who took over after a 16-year MLS playing career that included 13 seasons as a midfielder for Colorado.The United Bid Committee is considering 49 stadiums — including Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara — in those regions for inclusion in the official bid that will be sent to soccer’s international governing body, FIFA, in March.

What a year (life?) it’s been for white women, people of color and nonbinary people in tech. First, engineer Susan Fowler came forward about her time at Uber, where she says the company ignored her numerous reports of sexual harassment. Then, 3 female founders came forward about their experiences of sexual harassment and unwanted advances with Justin Caldbeck, co-founder of Binary Capital. Read More

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is set to screen Terence Davies’ “Distant Voices, Still Lives” (1988) in 35mm on Sunday, Aug. 20.Davies based this heart-wrenching masterpiece on his and his sisters’ memories of their childhoods in 1950s Liverpool, being raised by their brutal father and stalwart mother.Coming soon: 1992’s “The Long Day Closes,” a more explicitly autobiographical film centered on a closeted, movie-loving boy named Bud; 2008’s “Of Time and the City,” Davies’ film essay on and eulogy to Liverpool; and his Emily Dickinson biopic, “A Quiet Passion” (2016).